bluster
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Bluster can be a useful ingredient in foreign policy, but only if means and ends are well integrated.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2025
"Bluster is not an outcome - bluster is bluster," he says.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2018
Bluster and jokes are pretty typical ways that men get serious points over, but behind it I could detect some genuine concern for my welfare.
From The Guardian • Nov. 27, 2017
Bluster is no substitute for actually being capable.
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2014
Bluster, blus′tėr, v.i. to make a noise like a blast of wind: to bully or swagger.—n. a blast or roaring as of the wind: bullying or boasting language: a storm of anger.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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